Use "base href" to generate shorter URLs, making pages 10-20% smaller on average.

RC 2

Getting ever closer to the 2.6.1 here is 2.6.1RC2, at this point my todo list is complete and the only thing left is fixing any last minute bugs. I will be attending a PHP Conference (PHP|Cruise) at the end of this week and will not be avaliable till 6th of May, but once I return unless critical problems appears 2.6.1 final will be released.

Bug Fixes:

Fixed back-to-top & various inline links.

Corrected error messages for registered but not validated users.

Added security check for moved topic pointers.

A much faster IE hack that uses a .gif fallback.

Updated German & Chinese translations.

Fixed handling of HTML entities.

Validate alias against login filter.

Make quote tag use XHTML compliant

Fixed handling of minimized forums to which user has VIEW but not READ permission.

Fixed RDF output.

Fixed handling of subject in NNTP & Mailing List synchronization.

New Features:

FUD API - this offers a series of functions that can be easily used to retrieve forum data from external applications.